Ubuntu MATE is not a small project anymore and it has a lot of fans. Many of these fans are donating money and the Ubuntu MATE devs are using some of those funds to sponsor other open source projects.
There was quite a furious debate in the Linux community about what the elementary OS devs said about financial contributions from the community. They didn’t say it exactly like this, but they felt that users should pay for projects they really like and use, like elementary OS … (read more)
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